(HUDSON, N.Y.) – BasilicaScope, projected to be an annual film festival based at Basilica Hudson, premieres this weekend, Thursday, July 18, 2013, through Sunday, July 21, 2013. According to its founders, the festival “celebrates films that explore the furthest extremes – from remote landscapes, unconventional perspectives, fanatic personalities, radical examinations of film’s materiality, to the…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Author and musician Michael Hearst will be at the Spotty Dog to celebrate his book Unusual Creatures on Sunday, July 21, 2013, at 1pm. Hearst will give a Powerpoint lecture and perform songs related to his book on the Theremin. Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. He is a founding member…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Punk- noir duo Twin Guns and garage quartet the Living Kills will perform at the second installment of SmashCrashBash!!, a semi-regular, rock ’n’ roll-themed party, at the Half Moon in Hudson on Friday, July 19, 2013, at 9pm. Taking garage punk down some of its shadier alleyways, Twin Guns have carved out…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Melissa James Gibson’s This – a comedy about friends, marriage, and kids – will receive its upstate New York premiere in a staging by the Proprietors Theatre Company at Henry Hudson Studios from Thursday, July 18, 2013, through Saturday, July 20, 2013, at 8pm. The play will be given a distinctly Hudson…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Eat the Farm, a farm greenhouse dinner bringing together the culinary talents of Helsinki Hudson executive chef Hugh Horner and the summer bounty of Holmquest Farms, will take place on Thursday, July 25, 2013, at 7pm, in the Holmquest Farms greenhouse at 516 Spook Rock Rd. Eat the Farm reverses the familiar,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Emmy Award-winning actress Colleen Zenk portrays Tallulah Bankhead in Looped, a new play by Matthew Lombardo running at Stageworks/Hudson Wednesdays through Sundays through Sunday, July 28, 2013. Based on a true incident, Looped finds Tallulah Bankhead, the internationally celebrated actress, being called into a sound studio in 1965 to re-record (or “loop”)…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Jazz greats Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso will lead the Omi Improvisers Orchestra, featuring a baker’s dozen musicians from around the globe, in a unique concert of “guerrilla jazz” at Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, July 21, at 8pm. Ensemble members hail from South Korea, Sweden, Russia, China and Italy, and are…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – There will be an opening reception for new exhibitions of paintings by Craig Olson, Snider, Gregory Amenoff, Peter McCaffrey and Jason Stopa and sculpture by Jon Isherwood at John Davis Gallery on Saturday, June 22, 2013, from 6 to 8pm. The works will be on display through July 14. Craig Olson’s new…
by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – New police chief L. Edward Moore has some ideas about how to do things differently in this small river city, and at the top of the list is getting cops out of cars and onto the streets, walking the beat. “The police car was a bad invention,” he told…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Roselle Kline Chartock, of Great Barrington, Mass., is one of three new artists exhibiting this month at 510 Warren Street Gallery‘s May Invitational until Sunday, May 26, 2013. Chartock is a native of Hudson, N.Y., and the work in her exhibition, A Relative History of Hudson, addresses her personal connection to this…
